Overview
- Focuses on African American women and the critical role they played as key co-creators of the alternative black curriculum for elementary and secondary school students
- Includes case study of curriculum for the National Training School for Women and Girls with primary source documents of the first, original African American social studies curriculum
- Uses a critical lens based in black history, educational history, and social studies research to offer a new perspective on the development of the alternative black curriculum
- Expands the range of actors who influenced the intellectual trends of black educational scholarship during the early twentieth century
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About this book
This book examines black intellectual thought during from 1890-1940, and its relationship to the development of the alternative black curriculum in social studies. Inquiry into the alternative black curriculum is a multi-disciplinary project; it requires an intersectional approach that draws on social studies research, educational history and black history. Exploring the gendered construction of the alternative black curriculum, Murray considers the impact of Carter G. Woodson and W.E.B. DuBois in creating the alternative black curriculum in social studies, and its subsequent relationship to the work of black women in the field and how black women developed the alternative black curriculum in private and public settings.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alana D. Murray is an educator-activist who taught world history and US history in Montgomery County, Maryland public schools for eighteen years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum, 1890-1940
Book Subtitle: Countering the Master Narrative
Authors: Alana D. Murray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91418-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91417-6Published: 11 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08249-9Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91418-3Published: 26 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 143
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Curriculum Studies, History of Education, Early Childhood Education